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Andrew George: To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what recent representations his Department has (a) received from and (b) made to local NHS organisations on delays in receiving additional funding for improving maternity care; [228173]
(2) pursuant to the answer to the hon. Member for Macclesfield of 5 February 2008, Official Report, columns 783-84W, on maternity services, how much of the £330 million will be available in (a) the 2008-09 financial year and (b) each of the next two financial years. [228226]
Ann Keen: We have received a recent representation from the Royal College of Midwives. A national newspaper also made representations to finance officers of NHS trusts.
The £330 million is our national estimate of the total investment primary care trusts (PCTs) need to make over 2008-09 to 2010-11 to support delivery of the Maternity Matters strategy. This is being provided to the national health service as part of their overall PCT allocations. We then use the operating framework to set out our priorities for the NHSincluding Maternity Matters. But how best to deliver those priorities, including how much resource to spend on different policy areas in each year, is a matter for the NHS to decide locally in the light of their local circumstances.
Andrew Rosindell: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what measures are in place to protect patient records from data loss from (a) hospitals, (b) primary care trusts and (c) mental health trusts. [227787]
Mr. Bradshaw: I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to my right hon. Friend the Member for Leicester, East (Keith Vaz) on 15 July 2008, Official Report, columns 354-55W.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many patients contracted MRSA in hospitals in West Hertfordshire in the last five years. [228363]
Ann Keen: The latest information available on the number of cases of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) reported to the Health Protection Agency (HPA) by West Hertfordshire Hospitals NHS Trust is shown in the following table.
Number of reports to the HPA | MRSA rate per 10,000 bed days | |
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many staff in his Department are working on the NHS Identity, broken down by payband. [228274]
Mr. Bradshaw: Three members of staff work on the NHS Identity at the following paybands: Grade 7, senior information officer and information officer.
Mr. Lansley: To ask the Secretary of State for Health on which dates officials or Ministers in his Department met representatives of the pharmaceutical industry in the last six months to discuss (a) the recent increase in the practice of parallel trading and (b) a potential shortage of medicine stocks in the run-up to the introduction of the new drug-pricing regime in January 2009; and if he will place in the Library copies of the agenda and minutes of each meeting. [228269]
Dawn Primarolo: No meetings to discuss parallel trading have taken place. The availability of medicines in the run up to the introduction of the new Pharmaceutical Price Regulation Scheme has been discussed as part of the confidential negotiations currently underway between the Government and the pharmaceutical industry. It would not be appropriate to release information on these confidential discussions.
Paul Rowen: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment he has made of the implications of the deficit in the National Health Service Contributory Pension Fund. [229200]
Ann Keen: The NHS Pension Scheme is unfunded, so when benefits fall due for payment they are met from Government revenues. There is no actual pension fund or deficit. However, in any particular year, income from contributions from employers and employees is used to offset the costs of paying benefits to pensioners.
Mr. Gordon Prentice: To ask the Secretary of State for Health which Local Involvement Networks have been established but are not yet operational. [227966]
Ann Keen: The information requested is not collected centrally.
Mike Penning: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many opticians there are per 1,000 people in Hemel Hempstead constituency. [228366]
Ann Keen: The information is not held centrally. The Information Centre for health and social care will publish the number of General Ophthalmic Services ophthalmic practitioners per 100,000 population, as at 31 December 2007, in the report General Ophthalmic Services: Workforce Statistics for England and Wales, 31 December 2007. It is expected that the report will be published in November 2008, with information available by primary care trust and strategic health authority.
Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list primary care trusts in the order of level of deprivation of the community each serves. [228106]
Dawn Primarolo: The Indices of Deprivation 2007 are the Government's official measure of multiple deprivation at small area level. The Index of Multiple Deprivation brings together 37 different indicators which cover specific aspects or dimensions of deprivation, covering income, employment, health and disability, education, training and skills, barriers to housing and services, crime and living environment.
The Index of Multiple Deprivation is a relative measure of deprivation and therefore cannot be used to say how much more deprived area X is than area Y, though it can be used to say that area X is more deprived than area Y.
The following primary care trusts (PCTs) are listed according to the rank order given by the Index of Multiple Deprivation 2007.
1. Heart of Birmingham Teaching PCT
2. Liverpool PCT
3. City and Hackney Teaching PCT
4. Tower Hamlets PCT
5. Manchester PCT
6. Knowsley PCT
7. Newham PCT
8. Islington PCT
9. Middlesbrough PCT
10. Birmingham East and North PCT
11. Hull Teaching PCT
12. Blackpool PCT
13. Nottingham City PCT
14. Sandwell PCT
15. Salford PCT
16. Blackburn with Darwen PCT
17. Haringey Teaching PCT
18. Stoke on Trent PCT
19. Lambeth PCT
20. Leicester City PCT
21. Barking and Dagenham PCT
22. Hartlepool PCT
23. Greenwich Teaching PCT
24. Heywood, Middleton and Rochdale PCT
25. Southwark PCT
26. Waltham Forest PCT
27. Wolverhampton City PCT
28. Bradford and Airedale Teaching PCT
29. Sunderland Teaching PCT
30. Newcastle PCT
31. South Tyneside PCT
32. Lewisham PCT
33. Halton and St Helens PCT
34. South Birmingham PCT
35. Doncaster PCT
36. Oldham PCT
37. Barnsley PCT
38. Walsall Teaching PCT
39. Redcar and Cleveland PCT
40. Bolton PCT
41. Gateshead PCT
42. Brent Teaching PCT
43. North East Lincolnshire PCT
44. Camden PCT
45. Hammersmith and Fulham PCT
46. Wirral PCT
47. Coventry Teaching PCT
48. Sheffield PCT
49. Bristol PCT
50. East Lancashire Teaching PCT
51. Tameside and Glossop PCT
52. County Durham PCT
53. Wakefield District PCT
54. Ashton, Leigh and Wigan PCT
55. Rotherham PCT
56. Derby City PCT
57. Torbay PCT
58. Westminster PCT
59. Enfield PCT
60. Plymouth Teaching PCT
61. Brighton and Hove City PCT
62. Kirklees PCT
63. Sefton PCT
64. Ealing PCT
65. Leeds PCT
66. Great Yarmouth and Waveney PCT
67. Hastings and Rother PCT
68. Luton PCT
69. Peterborough PCT
70. Southampton City PCT
71. Portsmouth City Teaching PCT
72. Darlington PCT
73. Bassetlaw PCT
74. Cornwall and Isles of Scilly PCT
75. North Tees Teaching PCT
76. Dudley PCT
77. Kensington and Chelsea PCT
78. North Tyneside PCT
79. Hounslow PCT
80. Calderdale PCT
81. Telford and Wrekin PCT
82. North Lincolnshire PCT
83. Bury PCT
84. Croydon PCT
85. Cumbria Teaching PCT
86. Barnet PCT
87. Northumberland PCT
88. Central Lancashire PCT
89. Isle of Wight National Health Service PCT
90. Redbridge PCT
91. Wandsworth PCT
92. Eastern and Coastal Kent PCT
93. Medway PCT
94. Bournemouth and Poole Teaching PCT
95. Derbyshire County PCT
96. South West Essex PCT
97. Nottinghamshire County Teaching PCT
98. North East Essex PCT
99. Hillingdon PCT
100. North Lancashire Teaching PCT
101. North Staffordshire PCT
102. Stockport PCT
103. Lincolnshire Teaching PCT
104. Warrington PCT
105. Herefordshire PCT
106. Devon PCT
107. Trafford PCT
108. Norfolk PCT
109. Western Cheshire PCT
110. South East Essex PCT
111. Swindon PCT
112. Shropshire County PCT
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